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Originally Posted by Cusick
I think the original image came from the New York Clipper. Shown below is the image of Jerry Kane from the New York Clipper of February 21, 1891 as published in a book called THE COMPLETE NEW YORK CLIPPER BASEBALL BIOGRAPHIES.
Baseball encyclopedias used to list Jerry Kane as William Jeremiah Kane. That's why the image below shows him as W. Kane. The New York Clipper article that accompanied the image clearly mentioned his having been with the 1890 St. Louis Browns and even presented a few stats for the 8 games he played for them.
Somewhere along the line, the powers-that-be changed Jerry Kane's formal name to Jeremiah Joseph Kane. He is listed that way in both Baseball-Reference.com and Retrosheet. I don't think that invalidates the image, but I'm presenting what I know about the situation for interested parties to ponder.
Baseball-Reference.com appears to be using the same image for Jerry Kane as UKBaseballFan posted to this forum back in 2007.
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I'm not sure this image is Jerry Kane, the part-time catcher with the Browns in 1890. I came across a reference in the St. Louis Post-Disptach on December 3, 1889 noting that the St. Louis Browns signed William Kane, catcher with Evansville (IN) in 1889. Tracking him over the next few months in the St. Louis papers, you learn he was from Collinsville, IL with battery-mate Otto Von der Broeck. He played in a few games with the Browns in preseason, and was released on April 12, 1890.
On April 20, 1890, the Post-Dispatch notes that "Kane, an East St. Louis catcher" will be given a trial. This was Jerry Kane. On April 25, Kane was described as "a cousin of Billy Kane, recently released by the Browns" in the St. Louis Globe Democrat. A few days after that (April 30), the Globe-Democrat reported that Otto Van der Broeck and Billy Kane were negotiating with Quincy. Both subsequently showed up in the box scores for Quincy in 1890. Baseball-Reference has Jerry Kane with Quincy, but he was with the Browns at the same time as the Kane playing with Quincy.
So the image from the New York Clipper may in fact be Billy Kane, not Jerry Kane.